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The SolarWinds Orion Installer is an all-in-one application for installations and upgrades. You use one installer to install or upgrade multiple Orion Platform products and install or upgrade Additional Polling Engines, Additional Web Servers, and High Availability Servers.

Group related objects into collections

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You can group related objects into permanent collections by using lists. These collections can be reused later. Lists can contain:

VMs

Hosts

Clusters

Datastores

Applications

In terms of permission levels, lists can be:

Private

Publicly readable

Publicly writable

Lists are useful if you want to keep record of items that do not change automatically.

For example, if you search for a specific set of VMs requiring a patch, you can add the results of the search to the Active List and save the list for future reference. As VMs get patched, you can remove them from the list.

You can also group a collection of hosts based on ownership, role, geography, or other attributes.

Lists are different from search queries because they are static. If a VM changes characteristics that are criteria for a search query, that VM does not show up in the search results anymore, but it remains in the list.

The only exceptions are cases where the VM is unregistered with a vCenter server, or otherwise made unavailable for data collection. In these cases, the VM does not remain in the list.

Add items to the list

You can add items to a list from the modules in Virtualization Manager in various ways:

To add a single object to the list, click the orange + button.

To add multiple objects to the list, select the items, and click Add to List.

To add items from dashboard widgets to the list, click Add to List. This option is only available for some types of widgets. For information about widget types, see Create a dashboard.